I actually feel like polish at 3 points is insufficient. Players need motivation to check up on things. Right now, many of the players are lazy, and don't bother checking Gatherer or other resources available to them. If more points were at stake, maybe those lazy players would actually take the time to edit their cards.
I'm not trying to disparage the player-base. I guess what I'm getting at is that right now we have a fairly small "elite" group of designers, many of whom are judges (and thus don't actually play that often), who really take the time and effort to make good cards (they also took the time to develop the skills necessary to be able to make good cards). Many of the rest of players don't seem to understand that just having a good idea is not enough to make a good card. You have to put effort into polishing that idea, to make sure it doesn't have some huge flaw you didn't notice at first, and also to take the rough edges off.
I must agree, granted i haven't been around to long but you have to at least search gatherer you know? Also, i agree with your idea of moving 5 points to polish but then realize that if you do do this people who can't produce renders or have very little experience in doing so will be, in effect, shafted from having their cards win over "prettier" cards.
I'm in support of a perfect card not meeting bonuses getting 23/25
And a perfect card meeting bonuses getting 25/25
Just make an extra bonus category guys... not to hard.
Thanks for the kind words Blackbull!
I'll make sure to triple check my submission next time in order to make sure that all punctuation and other magic related things are in order. I will also, of course, add a text card from now on, sorry about that
And for how i thought up the card, i was going to go blue, so flavor wise counter spells are premium, and then i remembered it has to be a creature that cared about lands so i used the snow land restrictions that happened all through the ice age block, but, after looking at it again, it is to good to be common.
make a planes walker
make a lengendary creature that puts tokens into play (these can be either creature tokens or artifact tokens or...... you get the idea)
Choose any 5-card cycle, and make a 6th card for it, the 5-color version. Don't try to tone it down either, I want it to be a crazy timmy card.
Maybe too similar to your last challenge, but should still be fun, I think.
Also, I accept your challenge. Big pressure fusing two extremely strong cards...can't make it any stronger, but also making it weaker will kill the appeal.
Psychic Trade 2UU Instant (R)
Counter target spell and reveal an instant with equal to or less than the same converted mana cost of the countered spell, you may play this card without paying its mana cost.
Could have gone either way, lifeandllamas. I thought your card was cool.
Challenge: Make a card with Devour -1 (it comes into play with a -1/-1 counter for each creature it devoured).
Thanks man i'm not gonna lie i love my card but i hadn't played with rivers grasp so i didn't realize that it had pretty much been done before. Land destruction had always been my bane lol.
good luck man.
Actually, I'm going to double dare yours back at you then, lifeandllamas. It's either too restrictive doing both (it'll be a variation of River's Grasp), or too narrow doing only one of them, which i would probably get dinged for doing.
Well i guess our challenges were harder than we thought in the first place lol.
It's not as hard as you think, by adding some land matters to the card it becomes a fresh idea that is balanced by the card itself unless you build a deck to take advantage of it.
Nautical mischief 1U/
Sorcery Uncommon
If you control an Island return target creature to it's owners hand
If you control a Swamp target player discards a card at random
If you control both a Swamp and an Island return target creature you control to your hand and discard a card After incanting the spell I couldn’t help but notice that my army had disappeared as well
You all have four days, so until 12 AM Sat July 25th (when Friday becomes Saturday).
The challenges I give out will never be easy, but as this is a trial run, I'm willing to allow you cancel your double dare if you feel like you're not up to my challenge.
Yeah, I had no idea how to balance that thing, so I just erred on the side of "not broken". And yeah, I admit requiring XW would have been a better idea.
Challenge: Make an enchantment which is based on the weather.
Ok so after checking gatherer i found that the kinds of weather i want to use, Flash floods, or tornadoes or hurricane or heat waves have already been used so, surprisingly, Double Dare this one back
Does the wording need to be changed or can this not be done?
Or is "whenever a creature dealt damage by ~ dies put a charge counter on it" the correct wording
I must agree, granted i haven't been around to long but you have to at least search gatherer you know? Also, i agree with your idea of moving 5 points to polish but then realize that if you do do this people who can't produce renders or have very little experience in doing so will be, in effect, shafted from having their cards win over "prettier" cards.
I'm in support of a perfect card not meeting bonuses getting 23/25
And a perfect card meeting bonuses getting 25/25
Just make an extra bonus category guys... not to hard.
I only ask because if i do add flavor text the card will seem cluttered and unpleasing to the eye.
I'll make sure to triple check my submission next time in order to make sure that all punctuation and other magic related things are in order. I will also, of course, add a text card from now on, sorry about that
And for how i thought up the card, i was going to go blue, so flavor wise counter spells are premium, and then i remembered it has to be a creature that cared about lands so i used the snow land restrictions that happened all through the ice age block, but, after looking at it again, it is to good to be common.
i'll be back next time though!
make a planes walkermake a lengendary creature that puts tokens into play (these can be either creature tokens or artifact tokens or...... you get the idea)
Good luck man!
2UU Instant (R)
Counter target spell and reveal an instant with equal to or less than the same converted mana cost of the countered spell, you may play this card without paying its mana cost.
Thanks man i'm not gonna lie i love my card but i hadn't played with rivers grasp so i didn't realize that it had pretty much been done before. Land destruction had always been my bane lol.
good luck man.
I don't see why not.
Well i guess our challenges were harder than we thought in the first place lol.
Sorcery Uncommon
If you control an Island return target creature to it's owners hand
If you control a Swamp target player discards a card at random
If you control both a Swamp and an Island return target creature you control to your hand and discard a card
After incanting the spell I couldn’t help but notice that my army had disappeared as well
Nah i'm good. It sounds like fun to make.
Wow... Thats intense. how long do i have for this?
Ok so after checking gatherer i found that the kinds of weather i want to use, Flash floods, or tornadoes or hurricane or heat waves have already been used so, surprisingly, Double Dare this one back